Sentence examples for a modest set from inspiring English sources

Instead we approached this negotiation with a modest set of proposals.

Team Dennis Conner's base is a modest set of steel sheds with a hospitality tent left over from the last Cup campaign.

Mr. Horton, who has already helped a few clients fill out Form 8938, said that for most individual filers, "even if we're talking about a modest set of accounts, it's going to take a full Saturday to do it".

A modest set of results Mr Livingstone scraping home in London and a slight improvement on last year's share of the popular vote elsewhere may end up being seen as a spectacular double-whammy.

All in all, a modest set of changes, but the biggest evolution since this version of the site débuted in March, 2007, and we think it adds up to a significant improvement.

Rob Manfred, the clubs' chief labor lawyer, said that the clubs had entered these negotiations with "a modest set of proposals" and that they wanted only to create "a speed bump" for the biggest-spending teams.

Its goal, says its owner, Paul Sorchy, a chiropractor, is to provide a modest setting where members can feel comfortable exercising.

Perhaps it's too much to hope for the beginning of the end of conglomeration in the book world or for a return to a more modest set of expectations.

A burgeoning financial crisis will prevent the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from delivering on most of a series of promised service expansions — but a more modest set of changes aimed at easing subway crowding is still in the works, officials said on Wednesday.

That's an optimistic assessment of what is, given the scale of the challenge, a relatively modest set of proposals.

Nick Clegg is being urged by fellow Liberal Democrats to make a dignified exit from the coalition stand-off over elected peers and embrace a more modest set of reforms to the House of Lords.